Foxborough – One day after parting ways with long-time coach Bill Belichick, the New England Patriots from the US professional football league NFL have already found a successor in Jerod Mayo, according to US media reports.
Details about an engagement are still being negotiated, the official commitment could be announced next week, reported the AP news agency and the TV station ESPN, among others.
The 37-year-old played for the team from Foxborough, Massachusetts, from 2008 to 2015 and won the Super Bowl with the Patriots as a linebacker in 2014. Mayo has been part of Belichick’s coaching staff for two years. According to ESPN, Mayo would be the youngest coach in the NFL.
The New England Patriots and the 71-year-old successful coach Belichick announced on Thursday that they were going their separate ways. Belichick won the Super Bowl six times with the Patriots, making him the most successful coach in NFL history. But since the departure of star quarterback Tom Brady in 2020, things no longer went as planned and a sporting decline followed. In the current season, the Patriots won only four of 17 games, suffered their worst record since 1992 and missed qualifying for the playoffs.
2024-01-12 15:33:41
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